Ideas Wanted: Collecting Ideas for a Pirates 3 fan edit?

I was extremely disappointed by Pirates 3.  I think it’s mostly a mess, it stops playing by the rules set up in the first two, and the introduction of the Sea-Witch as a major part of the narritive that late in the game is really unsatisfactory to me.

My problem is that I am a better fan than a writer.  When the wife and I watched Pirates 1&2 in anticipation of seeing 3 in the theatre, I got really excited by the foreshadowing in 2 and was really look forward to how they were going to pay it off in 3.  Something seems to have happened there because the 2nd half and denouement of 3 seems to have almost nothing to do with 2.

What can be done?  Well, it’s probably impossible for me but I would suggest a complete rewrite of 3.  Don’t start with the movie and work backwards, but start with with a blank page and the history in 1 & 2 and work forwards.  Then, see what materials are available in the whole trilogy, and see what can be done.

What do you think?

I treat it like the Matrix: great first movie, good sequences in the second, confusing and forgettable third. I just ignore the last two, as the first is so well done as anything adding to it decreases its value to me.

Sorry, that's not very helpful to your edit. I really have no ideas on how to completely restructure the last movie.

I thought that they were really building this Lord of the Rings style "the end of the magical age" idea when they introduced the East India Trading Company.  The idea the world was endless and unexplorered was soon coming to an end.  The world was outgrowing pirates and krakkens and the undead and was settling into more reasonable mature things like trade routes and sales on spices.